What you’re doing is rather desperate…

I recently saw a quote in an email from my Twitter account that caught my attention: “…many people view bioinformatics as a collection of recipe-style solutions to specific tasks, rather than a philosophy of how to do biological data analysis.” The link took me to a blog by Neil Saunders, who shares his witty and useful “notes from the life of a computational biologist.” There are several interesting posts, such as:

There are also slides posted from his talks at the 2015 Bioinformatics FOAM conference, entitled “Online bioinformatics forums why do we keep asking the same questions?” and “Should I be dead? A very personal genomics”